The aim of the National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit is to examine the overall quality of care for oesophago-gastric cancer in the UK. In particular, it looks at patterns of treatment and what determines them; compliance with key process standards, such as the use of staging investigations and outcomes of surgery and other treatment, including peri-operative mortality, lymph node yields and resection margin status.

It is funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Program (HQIP) and is a collaboration between five organisations:

AUGIS

British Society of Gastroenterology

Royal College of Radiologists (RCR)

Clinical Audit and Registries Management Service (CARMS) of NHS Digital

Clinical Effectiveness Unit of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (CEU)